🛡️ CVE-2024-41816
🟡 CVSS 5.4 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-79 NVD
5.4
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Cooked is a recipe plugin for WordPress. The Cooked plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Persistent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via the ‘[cooked-timer]’ shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.8.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with subscriber-level access and above to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses a compromised page. This issue has been addressed in release version 1.8.1. All users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.4
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-79
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2024-08-05
Updated 2026-06-02
Modified 2025-02-07

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
cooked 1.8.1

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